Clay Waters

Clay Waters is director of Times Watch, a division of the Media Research Center (MRC) that tracks the liberal bias of the New York Times. You can follow Times Watch on Twitter and Facebook.

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Sticking Up for Harry Reid Against Sarah Palin

Reporter Carl Hulse: "Now Harry Reid is hardly thin-skinned and almost anything else Ms. Palin could have said about him might not have drawn much of a reaction. But to the former boxer from tiny ...

Egan on Sarah Palin, "Alarming" Alaskan Outsider

Liberal reporter turned nytimes.com blogger Timothy Egan argues that the Alaskan Palin may be too strange for mainstream America - a week after attacking Cokie Roberts for calling Hawaii a ...

Finally: Official Correction on Palin-Alaskan Independence Party "Membership"

The Times' front-page mistake from Tuesday is finally officially corrected.

Times Still Denigrating Sarah Palin's Experience, Slides by Sexism Charges

"Ms. Palin's speech came after Rudolph W. Giuliani of New York launched a withering attack on Mr. Obama as part of a relentless assault by Republicans arguing that Ms. Palin, the former mayor of a ...

Reporter Laments Loss of Old, Media-Friendly McCain

Reporter Jim Rutenberg sees charges of liberal media bias as a campaign tactic, not a genuine concern.

Republican Convention Too White and Too Male for NYT Reporter

Patrick Healy forwarded Democratic criticism of the GOP's "unrepresentative sea of white faces, the ghost of elections to come..."

No Media Sexism Here, Says Alessandra Stanley

But in June Stanley said that both Hillary Clinton and Michelle Obama had endured "antifeminist hazing."

Another Day, Another Republican Attacking "Obama's Patriotism"

The Times claims John McCain "initiated a series of attacks on Senator Barack Obama's patriotism..." - but again fails to back up the charge with a single example.

Laura Ingraham Points the Finger (Literally) at NYT's "Entrenched Elite"

Katharine Seelye gets more than she bargained for at a pro-life convention gathering.

Reporter Asks: Should Palin Talk About Hubby's DUI in Her Speech?

Sheryl Gay Stolberg: "But what about the business of Ms. Palin's complicated family: her feud with her state trooper brother-in-law, which sparked an ethics investigation; her husband, who was ...

Times Buries Palin-Alaska Independence Party Correction on Page 18

After falsely stating on Tuesday's front page that Sarah Palin was once a member of the Alaska Independence Party, the Times "corrects" the record not on the Correction page but in a box at the ...

Conservatives Push "Punitive Measures" on Immigration in Platform

The Times' label-happy conservative-beat reporter uses the word "conservative" more often than the conjunction "and."

Ignorant Questions to Gov. Bobby Jindal: Converting to Christianity = Rejecting Family Values?

Deborah Solomon to La. Gov. Bobby Jindal: "If the Republican Party bills itself as the party of family values, what should we make of the fact that you rejected the name your parents gave you, ...

NYT Questions Palin's "Parenting"; Bumiller Flubs Palin's AIP "Membership"

Reporter Kate Zernike (pictured) in a podcast wonders why Sarah Palin accepted McCain's invitation given that she had a pregnant teen-age daughter, and Elisabeth Bumiller's front-page story ...

A Candidate's Lonely Iraq Crusade Finally Vindicated...Obama's?

Bizarre: "Senator John McCain's rival, Senator Barack Obama, once was a lonely voice demanding the withdrawal of all combat forces by mid-2010. But now, Iraq's leaders are pushing a timetable that ...

Mildly Criticizing (But Also Excusing) Unhinged Rumors of Sarah Palin's Pregnancy

Making excuses for unhinged leftist rumors: "For those who are blaming the liberal blogs in the Palin instance, the left would certainly counter and take aim at Republican blogs and Internet sites ...

McCain's Protection of Bristol Palin's Privacy Calls Leadership Into Question

On a podcast, reporters Jackie Calmes and Sheryl Stolberg attack Palin and McCain's judgment and say the pregnancy story is fair game because the campaign has "made a big issue of [Palin's] ...

Does "Hazardous" Palin Pick Undercut McCain's Case Against Obama?

Even before "baby-gate" broke, the Times questioned the "conservative" Palin pick.

"Militantly Anti-Choice" Palin Has the "Echo of Dan Quayle"

Liberal reporter-turned-leftist nytimes.com blogger Timothy Egan mocks vice presidential pick Gov. Sarah Palin.

Gov. Sarah Palin "Conservative" But Obama-Biden Not Liberal?

The Times has no problem calling Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin a "conservative," yet failed to label Barack Obama a liberal during the Democratic Convention.